E10 E - Design a responsible community project
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E10 E - Design a responsible community project
Mini-Beschreibung: Develop a fictional community project with a clear purpose, target group, activities, responsibilities and communication plan. Present and discuss it in English, use evidence from media, give feedback, revise your text and transfer your plan to a new context.
Level: English as first foreign language, Klasse 10, E-Niveau, Baden-Württemberg. The learning path is: English first → understand → respond → analyse → communicate → feedback → revise → transfer.
Privacy and safety: Use fictional profiles and project settings. Recordings are optional and stay private/local. Do not upload personal data, photos or voices without clear permission. No external AI tool is required. If AI is used by the teacher or learner, check facts and sources and keep your own wording and ideas visible.
Einleitung
A responsible community project starts with a real or plausible need, but it does not jump straight to action. A strong plan asks: Who needs what? What can our team realistically do? Who is responsible? How will we communicate? How do we know whether the project helped?
Media start – Look, think, question. Describe what you can actually see. Then add one possible interpretation and one question you cannot answer from the photo. A photo can show participation, but it cannot prove that a project was effective.
I-can goals
- I can identify purpose, target group, activities, responsibilities and communication in a project plan.
- I can compare two project ideas and support my judgement with details from sources.
- I can discuss realistic benefits, limits, safety and inclusion.
- I can present a coherent project pitch in clear English.
- I can mediate relevant information for a specific person and purpose.
- I can revise my own text after feedback and explain important changes.
Prior knowledge: Activate what you know
In pairs, answer in English: What makes a group project useful? What can go wrong? What information do you need before you contact people outside school? Collect six ideas and sort them into impact, organisation, communication.
Listening and Viewing
Viewing 1: Youth-led projects
The embedded UNICEF Cambodia video introduces youth-led social innovation. Watch a teacher-selected section first without notes. On the second viewing, note only five items: problem – target group – activity – support – possible impact.
Source check: The video comes from an organisation that supports the programme. That makes it useful for first-hand information, but it may emphasise positive outcomes. Compare its message with another source before making a broad claim.
Source for context: UNICEF Cambodia: Generation Future 2025
Viewing 2: Planning a project
Watch one teacher-selected section. Write down three planning moves that can be adapted to a school-size project. Then reject one idea from the video that would be too complex or too professional for your project. Explain why.
Listening focus
Listen for signposting: first, the main aim is, another point is, however, because of this, finally. Do not try to understand every word. Use the speaker’s structure, examples and visuals to predict meaning.
Reading
Model project: Green Corner Week
Purpose: Green Corner Week is a fictional one-week project to make a shared school-neighbourhood space cleaner, greener and easier to use.
Target group: students aged 13–18, nearby residents and people who use the space after school.
Activities: a short needs survey with fictional data, a supervised clean-up, planting in existing beds with permission, and a small information stand about keeping the area tidy.
Responsibilities: Maya coordinates the timeline; Leon checks materials and permissions; Noor prepares clear English information; Sam collects anonymous feedback. All profiles are fictional.
Communication plan: The team uses one notice board, one school-approved digital channel and a short update for the responsible adult. Messages state what will happen, when, where, who can join and who to contact. No public posting of participant photos is required.
Success check: The team compares the plan with anonymous feedback and records what should change next time.
Reading task: Find the design logic
Create a five-column note with the headings purpose, target group, activities, responsibilities, communication. Add one sentence from the model in your own words to each column. Then add one missing detail you would ask the team before approval.
Media analysis: What does the photo suggest about teamwork? Which claim would be unsafe to make from the image alone? Use the frame: The image shows … / It may suggest … / It does not prove …
Compare perspectives
Read two short source types:
- Wikipedia: Service Learning explains how community engagement can be linked with learning.
- UNICEF Cambodia: Generation Future 2025 presents examples of youth-led social innovation.
Compare them for purpose, audience, evidence and possible bias. Do not decide which source is “good” or “bad” as a whole. Decide which source is more useful for one specific question and explain why.
Context vocabulary
| Word or phrase | Meaning in this project | Useful example |
|---|---|---|
| purpose | the reason why the project exists | Our purpose is to make the space easier to use. |
| target group | the people the project is designed for | The target group includes local teenagers. |
| responsibility | a task that one person or role must manage | My responsibility is to check the timeline. |
| feasible | realistic with the available time and resources | The plan is feasible in one week. |
| accessible | easy to join or use for different people | The event needs an accessible meeting point. |
| permission | official agreement to do something | We need permission before using the space. |
| feedback | information that helps improve a product or plan | We will collect anonymous feedback. |
| impact | the effect of an action | We need evidence before claiming a large impact. |
Use it: Choose four items and write one connected mini-paragraph about your own fictional project. Avoid a word list.
Pronunciation and intelligibility
Focus on word stress, not accent imitation: com-MU-ni-ty, re-spon-si-BIL-i-ty, ac-TIV-i-ty, com-mu-ni-CA-tion, ac-CESS-i-ble. Mark the stressed syllable in five words from your pitch. Then practise one sentence with a clear content-word rhythm. Understandability is more important than accent-free speech.
Speaking
Discussion: Is the project responsible?
Use evidence-based moves:
- Claim: I think the project is realistic because …
- Evidence: The plan says … / The source shows …
- Limit: However, we still do not know …
- Response: I agree with that point, but … / I see it differently because …
Discuss Green Corner Week from three perspectives: a learner, a local resident and the adult responsible for safety. Avoid stereotypes. Base your points on roles and needs, not on assumptions about groups.
Presentation challenge
Prepare a 2–3 minute pitch. It must include:
- a one-sentence purpose
- a clearly defined target group
- two or three feasible activities
- named team responsibilities
- a communication plan with channel, audience, timing and message
- one risk or limitation and one way to reduce it
- one simple success check
Speaking model: Voice and delivery
Watch a short teacher-selected section of Julian Treasure’s TED talk. Focus only on delivery: pace, pause, emphasis and listener orientation. Test one technique in your pitch. Do not copy a speaking style that feels unnatural.
Writing
Your project brief
Write about 220–300 words. Use these five paragraph functions:
Paragraph 1 – Purpose and need: What problem or need does the project address, and what is the realistic goal?
Paragraph 2 – Target group: Who is included? How will the project remain accessible and respectful?
Paragraph 3 – Activities: What will happen, in what order, and within what limits?
Paragraph 4 – Responsibilities: Who does what? Which tasks need permission or adult support?
Paragraph 5 – Communication and success check: Who receives which message, through which channel, and when? How will you collect feedback or evidence?
Writing rule: Keep your own wording. If you consult AI-generated suggestions or outside sources, check claims, keep a source note and revise the language so that the final text is genuinely yours.
Functional grammar
Use grammar to make the plan precise.
| Function | Language | Example |
|---|---|---|
| obligation | must / have to / need to | We must get permission before the event. |
| recommendation | should / could | We should offer two ways to give feedback. |
| condition | if + present, will / can | If it rains, we will move the information stand indoors. |
| responsibility | will be responsible for / will manage | Noor will be responsible for the notice. |
| cautious claim | may / might / seems to | The activity may improve awareness. |
Accuracy focus: Check modal verbs without to after must/should/could, except have to. Check word order after if. Use cautious language when you do not have strong evidence.
Mediation
A German-speaking caretaker gives your team this note:
„Der Innenhof darf nur nach Absprache genutzt werden. Fluchtwege müssen frei bleiben. Es dürfen keine privaten Fotos von Teilnehmenden veröffentlicht werden. Am Ende muss der Bereich sauber sein. Eine verantwortliche Lehrkraft braucht vorher den Ablaufplan.“
Your exchange student partner needs only the information required to help plan the project. Mediate the message into concise English. Do not translate sentence by sentence. Group the information under before – during – after and adapt it to the partner’s task.
Media literacy and source criticism
Compare this community-garden image with the UNICEF video. Ask:
- Who created the media and for what likely purpose?
- What can you directly observe?
- What is selected or left out?
- What claim would need another source?
- How could the media influence your project idea?
Use the meeting-process graphic as inspiration. Adapt it to a class project: keep only the parts that help a small student team. Explain one element you remove and why.
Help and scaffolds
Planning frame: Our project is called … Its purpose is … It is designed for … We will … The team roles are … We will communicate by … We will know the plan worked if …
Reasoning frame: The source states/shows … This supports the idea that … However, it does not tell us …
Repair phrase: Let me rephrase that. / What I mean is … / Could you clarify …? / I need a more precise word here.
Challenge option: Add a short comparison with a second source and explain how it changed one part of your plan.
Feedback and revision
Use a three-part peer response:
- One clear strength: Name one part that is easy to understand and explain why.
- One evidence question: Ask where a claim comes from or what information is still missing.
- One revision move: Suggest one concrete change in language, structure or responsibility.
Then revise your project brief. Highlight three changes and add one sentence: I changed … because …
Error analysis
Do not correct everything at once. Use four codes:
- VF = verb form
- WO = word order
- WW = wrong or imprecise word
- COH = weak connection between ideas
Choose two recurring errors from your draft. Correct them, explain the rule in simple English and write one new sentence that proves you can use the correction in a different context.
Transfer
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Your original plan was designed for a school-neighbourhood space. Transfer it to a different setting: a youth centre, a library, a sports club or an online school community. Change at least three elements. Explain which parts of the original plan still work and which do not.
Can-do check
| I can … | Not yet | With support | Independently |
|---|---|---|---|
| identify the five core parts of a community project | □ | □ | □ |
| use a media source without overclaiming | □ | □ | □ |
| discuss benefits and limits with evidence | □ | □ | □ |
| present a project clearly for 2–3 minutes | □ | □ | □ |
| write and revise a coherent project brief | □ | □ | □ |
| mediate relevant information for a specific audience | □ | □ | □ |
Follow-up course
Continue with E10 E - Pitch and evaluate a community project. There you can compare pitches, respond to questions, use feedback and evaluate whether evidence supports a claimed impact.
Interaktive Aufgaben
Quiz: Teste Dein Wissen
What is the main purpose of a project purpose statement? (To explain why the project exists and what it aims to achieve) (!To list every word the team might use) (!To describe the personal hobbies of the team) (!To replace all safety planning)
Which target group description is most precise? (Local teenagers aged 13 to 18 who use the youth centre after school) (!Everyone in the world) (!Nice people who like projects) (!Anybody who sees the poster)
Which activity is most responsible for a one-week school project? (A small supervised action with clear permission and a realistic goal) (!A city-wide programme with no adult contact) (!A public campaign using private student data) (!An activity with no plan for safety)
What should a responsibility section make clear? (Who manages which task) (!Which team member is most popular) (!How many difficult words the text contains) (!Which accent sounds most native)
What belongs in a communication plan? (Audience, channel, timing and key message) (!Only the project logo) (!A list of unrelated websites) (!Private photos of all participants)
What is a responsible claim about a project image? (The image shows a moment but does not prove the project was successful) (!The image proves everybody enjoyed the project) (!The image proves the project changed the whole community) (!The image proves there were no problems)
Which sentence uses cautious language correctly? (The activity may improve awareness) (!The activity definitely changes every person) (!The activity proves all future projects work) (!The activity cannot have any limits)
What is the best mediation strategy? (Select and adapt the information the receiver needs) (!Translate every word in exactly the same order) (!Add information that is not in the source) (!Ignore the receiver and purpose)
Which feedback comment is most useful? (Your purpose is clear; add evidence for the claimed impact) (!It is good) (!Make everything longer) (!Use more rare words)
What is the final step after receiving feedback? (Revise the project and explain important changes) (!Delete the original idea without checking) (!Ignore all comments) (!Publish personal data to prove the project is real)
Memory
| Purpose | reason for the project |
| Target group | people the project is designed for |
| Responsibility | task owned by a person or role |
| Communication plan | audience channel timing message |
| Feedback | information used for improvement |
| Feasible | realistic with available resources |
Drag and Drop
| Ordne die richtigen Begriffe zu. | Thema |
|---|---|
| Purpose | Why the project exists |
| Target group | Who the project is for |
| Activities | What the team will do |
| Responsibilities | Who manages each task |
| Communication plan | How and when information is shared |
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Kreuzworträtsel
| Purpose | What word means the main reason for a project? |
| Feedback | What word means information used to improve a plan? |
| Impact | What word means the effect of an action? |
| Audience | What word means the people a message is designed for? |
| Feasible | What word means realistic and possible to carry out? |
| Revision | What word means improving a text after feedback? |
LearningApps
Lückentext
Offene Aufgaben
Leicht
- Purpose in one sentence: Write one clear purpose for a fictional school or neighbourhood project. Add one sentence that limits the project to a realistic scale.
- Target group card: Create a fictional target-group profile with needs, access requirements and one thing you should not assume about the group.
- Vocabulary storyboard: Make six small panels that show the meaning of six key project words through context, not full translation.
- Image claim check: Choose one Commons image from this MOOC and write three observations, two possible interpretations and one claim the image cannot prove.
Standard
- Five-part project canvas: Design a fictional project with purpose, target group, activities, responsibilities and communication plan on one page.
- Two-minute pitch: Present your plan in English. Recording is optional and must remain private/local unless explicit permission exists.
- Purpose-based mediation: Turn the German caretaker note into a concise English planning message for an exchange student and explain what you left out.
- Feedback and revision: Exchange drafts, give one strength, one evidence question and one revision move, then revise three parts of your own text.
Schwer
- Two-source comparison: Compare the UNICEF source with the Service Learning article for audience, purpose, evidence and limits. Use the result to change one project decision.
- Multi-audience communication: Write three short messages about the same fictional project for students, a responsible adult and local residents. Adapt tone and detail without changing facts.
- Responsible project review: Identify four realistic risks involving privacy, safety, access or organisation and propose proportionate responses.
- New setting redesign: Transfer your project to a different community setting. Defend three changes with evidence from your previous feedback or source analysis.
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Lernkontrolle
- Design decision: A team wants to claim that its one-day activity will “transform the whole neighbourhood”. Rewrite the claim and explain what evidence would be needed for a stronger statement.
- Access problem: The event information is only posted on one digital platform. Analyse who might be missed and redesign the communication plan.
- Role conflict: Two team members think the other person will ask for permission. Explain the organisational problem and create a role solution that prevents it.
- Conflicting sources: One source describes a project positively while another raises limits. Explain how you would check both before changing your plan.
- Audience adaptation: A partner needs only the safety rules for an activity. Explain which information you would select from a longer German notice and why.
- Context change: Move a project from a school courtyard to a public library. Explain at least three planning decisions that must change.
- Feedback response: Given the comment “Your activities are clear, but the success claim has no evidence,” describe two revisions and justify them.
Lernnachweis
For a strong learning record, include:
- a final 220–300 word project brief with the five required project elements
- a 2–3 minute English pitch or an equivalent live presentation
- one short media or source analysis that separates observation from interpretation
- one mediation task adapted to audience and purpose
- one peer-feedback sheet and a revised text with three explained changes
- one short self-assessment using the Can-do check
- a source note for facts, media and any AI-supported suggestions that were checked
No public upload is required. Use fictional profiles. Private recordings are optional.
OERs zum Thema
Further open media used in this course:
- Wikimedia Commons: Volunteering.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: Students doing project work together.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: Garden Shot.png
- Wikimedia Commons: Wikimedia Core Platform Team meeting process.png
- Wikimedia Commons: volunteer clean-up photo
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Curriculum reference:
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